Jay McGavren's Journal

2007-07-23

Ka-FOOOOM!

Bomberman Live is so %$#@%$@#%$@#%$#@%$#@%$#@%#@ing awesome!  It’s very nice not to have to gather 4+ people and their SNES controllers at one house.

Of course, we’re still plagued by the connection issues we’ve always had on XBox Live games.  At least we confirmed last night that persistence pays off when trying to establish a session.

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2007-07-19

It would be a lot easier to tolerate working in this spaghetti Informix 4GL code and hand-coded SQL if I was not familiar with Active Record.

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2007-07-19

Between the baby, work, upcoming surgeries, and everything else, it’ll sometimes take me a whole week to get back to the problems I want to work on.  Not only can I not solve them, I can’t even work on them.  I spend the entire interim with them at the back of my mind.

I’ve always been about instant gratification.  This is really frustrating.

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2007-07-18

%$#@ Windows...

I just slashed all the stuff to build a Windows executable and installer from the Zyps rakefile.  It’s now less than half the size.

I’m still going to offer an executable installer, but I’m moving all that cruft out of the main repository.  Linux and Mac users don’t need the pollution.

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2007-07-18

Hmmm...

I’m LGPLing the Zyps code…

What if I made a shareware game out of it for Windows?  I’d broaden my audience, but still compensate myself for the massive pain in the ass that is releasing for Windows.  The code is perfect for doing that target shooting game I sketched out years ago, too…

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